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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, March 28, 2005
  • "War calls come first!"
    "War calls come first!"

    Captive Audience

    Keeping in touch with an incarcerated family member can take a heavy toll—literally. Members of the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice discuss efforts to address the mark-up on collect calls from prison, which can often be as high as 600%. Also: Medicare, Hip Hop, and the controversy in Columbia's Middle East Studies Department.

Medical Security

Jonathan Weisman, Financial reporter for the Washington Post
- on social security and medicare trustees analysis that medicare is in more need of attention
» Mr. Weisman's piece on Medicare in the Washington Post

Word Up to the Shake-Up?

Michaela Angela Davis, Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor, Essence Magazine, on a movement to fight negative images of women in hip-hop music
» Essence's "Take Back the Music" series

Middle East Struggle on the Hudson

Jennifer Senior, Contributing Editor at New York Magazine,
- on the controversy at Columbia University's Middle East Studies Department that's not contained to campus
» New York Magazine article

Captive Audience

https://perec.wnyc.org/admin/ Ron Daniels, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and National Chairperson of the Campaign for a New Tomorrow, a people-of-color-led, multi-racial independent political organization,
- on the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice
» Center for Constitutional Rights
and
Denise, a teacher and member of Grace Baptist Church's Prison Ministry whose husband is incarcerated in New York State,
- on the high costs of keeping in touch with incarcerated family members
» Campaign for Telephone Justice

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Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.